First Ever UK University WebTV Site Unveiled

Buckinghamshire New University has launched Bucks Television, the university's brand new webTV site, and the first of its kind at any UK university.
The webTV platform is completely customisable and provides multiple channels of changing content, a concept which is entirely new.
Showcasing to the audience the talent and creativity of their students, Bucks Television enables users to access a schedule of changing video content 24-hours a day, seven days a week and with video on demand.
The site was designed by Bucks New University students and built by the Twofour Group, one of the fastest growing broadcast television companies in the UK, using some of the most advanced web technologies available.
Bucks Television provides an amazing window into the university and the world of its students, and acts as a communications tool featuring a news and events channel, as well as channels for music, film and animation, together with a live webcam feed from the building site of Bucks' new campus.
It aims to publicly recognise students' work; to promote the students and their work to future employers; to stimulate creativity between students through the sharing of their creations and to recruit new students to the university.
Visitors to the site are immediately entertained with high quality videos, streaming in Flash video.
With the opportunity to 'Shout About It' (tell a friend); Download It (to an iPod or mobile phone) as well as linking to it or embedding it into a blog, the site has the full 'Web2.0' functionality.
There's even an opportunity for registered viewers to comment on the videos and create user profiles.
A unique feature of the site is that Bucks also has the ability to schedule which videos are shown and when.
For example, on a Friday night, a student may be much more interested in student music than other content.
Over the weekend, there's the opportunity to show videos about student sport and other areas of interest.
Bucks Television is accessible for everyone to join in; the university community - students, prospective students both here and abroad, staff, friends and families - and also the extended regional community, as well as potential employers, partners and other external organisations.
Bucks Television is the inspiration of Bucks New University's Web Marketing Manager, Cate Tollemache, who first had the idea three years ago in the days before YouTube, to create an online television website.
The site has been three years in development, and was designed by three third-year Faculty of Creativity & Culture students, Mike Hewett, Yohannes Blumel and Daniel Waziri, who worked alongside the Twofour interactive design team.
Meanwhile, Twofour is also currently creating a sophisticated webTV platform for the European Parliament that will stream both live and archived programmes in more than 20 EU languages across four channels.
Further information is available at: www.bucks.tv.
(KMcA)